The Spider-Man franchise will fill the female superhero movie void

While Deadline says this movie will be developed by Burn Notice’s Lisa Joy (who’s currently writing HBO’s Westworld with her husband, Jonathan Nolan) and produced by the Spider-Man franchise’s Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, not much else is known. Most important, obviously, would be which female superhero from the Spider-Man universe, with the possibilities ranging from Black Cat—who was played by Felicity Jones (in her Felicia Hardy alter ego, anyway) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2—to those not yet seen, like Silver Sable, Firestar, and Stunner. There’s also the just-introduced Silk, who was ret-conned into Peter Parker’s origin story in the comics suspiciously recently. And of course, there’s Spider-Woman, whom Stan Lee whipped up just to make sure no one else would beat him to it, which would certainly fit the creative impetus behind this project.

Whoever the character ends up being, the film should at last satisfy those who have long been calling for a new superhero movie featuring a female lead—or it will once it prompts the actual Marvel to make one itself.